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19-letter words containing u, n, c, e, a

  • buster brown collar — a medium-sized, starched collar with rounded edges, lying flat on the shoulders, worn by women and girls.
  • calculating machine — calculator (sense 3)
  • california bluebell — either of two plants, Phacelia campanularia or P. minor, of southern California, having ovate leaves and bell-shaped blue or purple flowers.
  • campernelle jonquil — a narcissus, Narcissus odorus, of the amaryllis family, having clusters of two to four fragrant yellow flowers.
  • canterbury pilgrims — the pilgrims whose stories are told in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
  • capacitive coupling — the connection of two or more circuits by means of a capacitor.
  • cape york peninsula — large peninsula in NE Australia, part of Queensland, between the Gulf of Carpentaria & the Coral Sea
  • capital expenditure — expenditure on acquisitions of or improvements to fixed assets
  • captains courageous — a novel (1897) by Rudyard Kipling.
  • castelnuovo-tedesco — Mario [mah-ryaw] /ˈmɑ ryɔ/ (Show IPA), 1895–1968, U.S. composer, born in Italy.
  • cathodoluminescence — luminescence caused by irradiation with electrons (cathode rays)
  • cauchy's inequality — Schwarz inequality (def 1).
  • celestial longitude — the angular distance measured eastwards from the vernal equinox to the intersection of the ecliptic with the great circle passing through a celestial body and the poles of the ecliptic
  • center of curvature — the center of the circle of curvature.
  • centre of curvature — the point on the normal at a given point on a curve on the concave side of the curve whose distance from the point on the curve is equal to the radius of curvature
  • centrifugal casting — casting that utilizes centrifugal force within a spinning mold to force the metal against the walls.
  • cerebrospinal fluid — the clear colourless fluid in the spaces inside and around the spinal cord and brain
  • champigny-sur-marne — a suburb of Paris, on the River Marne. Pop: 75 556 (2006)
  • chateauneuf-du-pape — a dry red or white wine from the Rhone valley near Avignon.
  • chlorofluoromethane — any of a series of gaseous or volatile methanes substituted with chlorine and fluorine and containing little or no hydrogen: used as refrigerants and, formerly, as aerosol propellants until scientists became concerned about depletion of the atmospheric ozone layer.
  • circular definition — a definition in which the definiendum (the expression being defined) or a variant of it appears in the definiens (the expression that defines it).
  • circulating decimal — repeating decimal
  • circulation manager — the senior manager responsible for the distribution of a newspaper
  • class consciousness — awareness of belonging to a particular social rank or grade
  • clemastine fumarate — an antihistamine, C 25 H 30 ClNO 5 , that has drying and some sedative effects, used for symptomatic relief of allergy.
  • collision insurance — insurance protecting an automobile owner against loss or damage to the automobile resulting from a collision or other accident.
  • columnar epithelium — epithelium consisting of one or more layers of elongated cells of cylindrical or prismatic shape.
  • comminuted fracture — a fracture in which the bone is splintered or fragmented
  • communications zone — the area behind the combat zone
  • communist manifesto — a political pamphlet written by Marx and Engels in 1848: a fundamental statement of Marxist principles
  • community education — the provision of a wide range of educational and special interest courses and activities by a local authority
  • community policeman — a police officer assigned to a particular area
  • community programme — (in Britain) a former government scheme to provide temporary work for people unemployed for over a year
  • community relations — the particular state of affairs in an area where potentially conflicting ethnic, religious, cultural, political, or linguistic groups live together
  • complete quadrangle — a plane figure consisting of four points connected by six lines
  • computer dictionary — Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  • computer simulation — an event, process, or scenario that is created on a computer
  • conceptualistically — In a conceptualistic sense.
  • concours d'elegance — a parade of cars or other vehicles, prizes being awarded to the most elegant, best designed, or best turned-out
  • concurrentsmalltalk — (language)   A concurrent variant of Smalltalk.
  • connecticut warbler — a North American wood warbler, Oporornis agilis, olive-green above with a gray head and throat and yellow below.
  • consultant engineer — an engineer who works as a consultant to a project or company
  • consultation period — a period during which consultations are held before a policy decision is made
  • consumer resistance — the unwillingness of consumers to adopt a particular product, service, or change
  • contemporaneousness — The state or characteristic of being contemporaneous.
  • continental cuisine — a style of cooking that includes the better-known dishes of various western European countries.
  • continued education — adult education.
  • continuity equation — the mathematical statement in fluid mechanics that, for a fluid passing through a tube in a steady flow, the mass flowing through any section of the tube in a unit of time is constant.
  • continuous creation — the theory that matter is being created continuously in the universe
  • contour integration — integration in the complex plane about a closed curve of finite length.
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